• Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing, end-to-end planning organization across Demand, Supply, and Materials Planning, setting clear expectations, cultivating accountability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. • Provide strategic direction, coaching, and structured career development to planners and planning leaders, ensuring the team has the skills, tools, and support needed to scale with the business. • Establish the planning organization’s operating model-defining roles, responsibilities, workflows, governance, and cross-functional interfaces to ensure seamless execution. • Champion change management related to system upgrades, process maturation, network expansion, and the planning discipline expected of a newly public company. • Create a culture of analytical excellence, proactive problem-solving, and cross-functional partnership, enabling the team to influence decisions across Commercial, Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Executive Leadership. • Drive talent capability building in forecasting, scenario planning, analytics, communication, and integrated planning processes to support both short-term performance and long-term organizational growth. • Support an S&OP/IBP process that improves cross-functional alignment and drives clearer decision-making in a rapidly changing environment. • Connect demand and supply plans to provide predictable, reliable signals for operations and commercial teams. • Lead the rollout and evolution of planning tools and systems, balancing the need for better analytics with the realities of a small, fast-moving team. • Build scalable forecasting capabilities—including statistical tools, AI/ML, and structured cross-functional inputs—to enhance demand signal reliability across channels and customers. • Drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy through disciplined review cycles, root-cause analysis, and effective collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Commercial partners. • Own the demand planning pillar of the S&OP/IBP process, ensuring transparency, actionable scenarios, and clear recommendations for executive decision-making. • Execute a scalable supply plan that balances service, cost, inventory, and capacity across a fast-growing, multi-node co-manufacturing network. • Implement robust capacity planning, scenario modeling, and constraint-based planning tools to guide short-, mid-, and long-range decisions. • Partner with Operations, Procurement, and Commercialization to anticipate constraints, mitigate supply risks, and ensure production plans are fully aligned with demand priorities, innovation timelines, and network capabilities. • Communicate supply risks, trade-offs, and service implications clearly and proactively to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders. • Lead continuous improvement efforts to enhance responsiveness, reduce lead times, and improve throughput across the supply network. • Collaborate with external network partners, including co-mans, logistics providers, and suppliers, to support reliability improvements, capacity expansion, and long-range network planning. • Oversee material contracts and coverage, ensuring adequate supply levels and strong alignment with Procurement on new contracts, and supplier performance. • Manage VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) suppliers, ensuring replenishment of reliability, inventory accuracy, and adherence to service and quality standards. • Establish scalable processes that provide end-to-end visibility across raw materials, packaging, components, and all supplier-managed inventory programs. • Lead material risk management by proactively identifying shortages, supplier constraints, lead-time shifts, and cost exposures, while developing mitigation plans and communication protocols. • Partner closely with Procurement and R&D to support commercialization timelines, supplier readiness, and material availability for new product launches and innovation projects. • Ensure material availability and readiness to support ongoing production plans and service-level commitments across the network. • Own safety stock strategy, inventory optimization, and slow-moving/obsolescence management in a cost-conscious environment.